VICTORIAN Mantel Shelf, Solid Pine Wood Fireplace Oven Floating Piece

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In an 18th-century Massachusetts house, the highlight of a parlor added in the 1780s is a beautiful, hand-carved mantel in fine Federal style. Note the delicacy of mouldings, dentils, and ornament. The rosette frieze is repeated in the chair rail. GOTHIC REVIVAL These mantels accentuate the perpendicular. The firebox opening or overmantel typically features a pointed Gothic or shallow Tudor arch. GREEK REVIVAL These mantels are usually based on the plain, post-and-lintel construction of Greek temples. White marble is the height of Athenian splendor, but most American Greek Revival mantels are of wood, sometimes faux-painted with veining. All mantelpieces are made from solid first grade pine, painted in undercoat paint, ready to be painted with a final paint color of your choice. Please note, the photos show the item with a final paint layer but you will receive your piece with an undercoat layer only.

Bring out the inherent (or preferred) style of your bungalow or Colonial Revival house with a well-dressed hearth and mantel. REVIVALS The most widespread designs of the early 20th century are Colonial Revival. Wood is often painted in an off-white color. Various arch shapes define Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival mantels. Mantel Beauty

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The floating mantel shelf is very easy to assemble and install, and comes with all the necessary hardware pieces and photo instructions. Help and assistance available via mail or phone. RENAISSANCE REVIVAL Formal, delicately carved mantel-pieces once again are likely to include an overmantel. Over the mantel Traditional options for the wall over the mantel include artwork, a mirror, taxidermy, or a textile. In the first quarter of the 20th century, art was often a plein-air or landscape painting, a portrait, or such period favorites as Edward Curtis prints of Native Americans. When a mirror was used, often it was beveled glass set into mouldings over the hearth, rather than a florid piece hung on the wall, as in previous periods. Animal heads continued to be popular in Western and Rustic homes or dens.

You are looking at beautifully handcrafted Victorian Style Mantel Shelf, made from first grade pine wood. It comes in 3 standard lengths/widths - 120cm (47"), 140cm (55") and 165cm (65"). This is a listing of a model with a lower, more extended bottom side than our most popular Victorian model, making the total height of the shelf (without the corbels) - 11cm. Turkish seating and an ebonized Bugatti table flank the original fireplace with overmantel. Bird’s-eye maple is featured in much of the woodwork.ROCOCO Many mid-19th-century marble mantels have an arched firebox opening. The spandrels forming the arch often overflow with carved fruits, leaves and flowers, or cherubic figures in three-dimensional relief. Wood mantels are carved. A mantel should not be shorter than the width of the fireplace including the hearth. A wood mantel must be at least six inches from the firebox, and should extend a minimum of three inches beyond the surround. The mantel overlaps the surround. The entablature (head, lintel, or frieze) below the shelf and its bed moulding should be deeper than each leg is wide. Mantel legs resting on the hearth look better and meet modern fire codes. The exact place of the corbels under the mantel shelf can be chosen by you at the time of installation.

All options are available from the drop-down ''length'' list menu located between the title and the "Buy it now" button. When you select an option from this list, the picture will change, showing you the the length/width, respectively with or w/o corbels and the price. Parts of a mantelpiece are labeled on this drawing of the formal Georgian fireplace in the West Parlor at Washington’s Mount Vernon. Not every mantel has an overmantel, which may end with crown moulding at the ceiling. The surround and mantel itself vary in size and proportion by style. An 1811 country mantel with little ornamentation nevertheless has fluted pilasters and dentil moulding. ADAM/FEDERAL Adamesque or Federal-era mantels feature low-relief carved and reeded ornament such as scrolls, urns, flowers, eagles, and mythological figures. By 1800, the broken pediment had disappeared. Overmantels were scarce. After the Revolution, decorative mantels were popularized through builders’ pattern books published in London and America. Lighter than their robust Georgian precedents, these mantels interpreted the neoclassical designs of Robert Adam (thus the alternate name “Adamesque”). This era’s neoclassical wave was called the Federal style in this country. Composition ornament (applied urns, swags, and flowerpots) was already available, though mantels were also carved entirely of wood, like those by Samuel McIntire in

Antique, vintage, and reproduction fireplace mantels and accessories are available for your new construction or to enhance an existing fireplace. Available in three lengths/widths: 120cm (47''), 140cm (55'') cm and 165cm (65''), with or without corbels.